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Author (s) Title/Publication Objective Methodology Result/Discussion/Future suggestions
[20]. Predictors of sexual risk To examine the Cross-sectional 55.1% (95%CI = 52.0-58.2) of the total
Farid, Rus, Dahlui, Al- behaviour among associations among sample was observed to practice sexual
Sadat, & Aziz, 2014 adolescents from individual risk behaviours. Smoking was the strongest
welfare institutions in factors and predictor of SRB among male adolescents
Malaysia: a cross interpersonal (OR = 10.3, 95%CI = 1.25-83.9).
sectional study. factors (family Among females, high family connectedness
structure, family (OR = 3.13, 95%CI = 1.64-5.95) seemed to
BMC Public Health, 2014 connectedness, predict the behaviour.
parental monitoring,
and peer pressure)
related to SRB
among adolescents
in the welfare
institutions of
Peninsular Malaysia.
[21]. Sexual Activity Among To identify risk and Cross-sectional The overall prevalence of reported ever-
Ahmad, Awaluddin, Malaysian School-Going protective factors had sex was 8.3%. Logistic regression
Ismail, Samad, & Adolescents: What Are associated with analysis revealed that ever-had sex was
NikAbdRashid, 2014 the Risk and Protective sexual activity positively significantly associated with ever-
Factors? among Malaysian used drugs (adjusted odds ratio [aOR] =
adolescents. 7.71; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 6.51-
Asia-Pacific Journal of 9.13), and to a lesser extent, ever-smoked
Public Health 2014, Vol. (aOR = 1.83; 95% CI = 1.62-2.07) and ever-
26(5S) 44S –52 consumed alcohol (aOR = 1.33; 95% CI =
1.15-2.53).
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